quarries

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quarries - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Quarry \Quar"ry\, n.; pl. Quarries. [OE. querre, OF.
     cuiri['e]e, F. cur['e]e, fr. cuir hide, leather, fr. L.
     corium; the quarry given to the dogs being wrapped in the
     akin of the beast. See Cuirass.]
     1.
        (a) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to
            the hounds.
        (b) A heap of game killed.
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     2. The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game;
        especially, the game hunted with hawks. "The stone-dead
        quarry." --Spenser.
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              The wily quarry shunned the shock.    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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quarries - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Quarries
  (1.) The "Royal Quarries" (not found in Scripture) is the name
  given to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern
  hill, Bezetha, on which Jerusalem is built. Out of these mammoth
  caverns stones, a hard lime-stone, have been quarried in ancient
  times for the buildings in the city, and for the temples of
  Solomon, Zerubbabel, and Herod. Huge blocks of stone are still
  found in these caves bearing the marks of pick and chisel. The
  general appearance of the whole suggests to the explorer the
  idea that the Phoenician quarrymen have just suspended their
  work. The supposition that the polished blocks of stone for
  Solomon's temple were sent by Hiram from Lebanon or Tyre is not
  supported by any evidence (comp. 1 Kings 5:8). Hiram sent masons
  and stone-squarers to Jerusalem to assist Solomon's workmen in
  their great undertaking, but did not send stones to Jerusalem,
  where, indeed, they were not needed, as these royal quarries
  abundantly testify.
  
    (2.) The "quarries" (Heb. pesilim) by Gilgal (Judg. 3:19),
  from which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his
  design to put Eglon king of Moab to death, were probably the
  "graven images" (as the word is rendered by the LXX. and the
  Vulgate and in the marg. A.V. and R.V.), or the idol temples the
  Moabites had erected at Gilgal, where the children of Israel
  first encamped after crossing the Jordan. The Hebrew word is
  rendered "graven images" in Deut. 7:25, and is not elsewhere
  translated "quarries."